March 31st 2005
Blogging for business
Jeremy Wright has written a great article on business blogging. It may be a little basic for most bloggers but it is a great introduction for people who are new to the whole ‘blog thing’.
Archive for March, 2005
March 31st 2005
Jeremy C. Wright’s “The Funny Thing About Work”
I like this one. Jeremy Wright, the author of Ensight has written a great post that contrasts approach to work when you are employed and when it is your own business. I have only really just started building my own business and I can already identify with most, if not all, of these comparisons. Here is a sample:
March 31st 2005
Seth Godin says “Try be nice first”
Seth Godin, the marketing guru, has published a post about being nice. The case study he uses is one I can readily identify with mainly because I work as a lawyer in my day job and I am often faced with situations where my clients are hopping mad and want to "sue the bastards" and expect the opening salvo to be hard and heavy. Sometimes this approach works and sometimes it doesn’t. What Seth proposes is something fairly radical, expecially in my profession:
March 31st 2005
We have irreparably harmed our ecosystem
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, drawn up by 1,300 researchers from 95 nations over a period of four years, paints a pretty dark picture for life on our home planet for generations to come. The BBC has reported on this story:
The report says the way society obtains its resources
has caused irreversible changes that are degrading the natural
processes that support life on Earth.
This will compromise efforts to address hunger, poverty and improve healthcare.
The findings are alarming. One of the statistics to emerge from the report is that 60% of world ecosystem services have been "degraded".
March 31st 2005
HP’s new CEO steps up to the plate
News.com has reported that Hewlett Packard’s new CEO, Mark Hurd, has not ruled out changes which could include spinning off HP’s lucrative printer business.
"I received no preconditions in accepting the job," Hurd said. He
officially takes up the post Friday after two years as chief executive
at NCR.
…
"I see a company that is fundamentally strong," Hurd said. "But it’s clear the company is not performing to its potential."
